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When children approach Agatha wanting to know the source of the beautiful fabrics in her weaving shop, she always recites a simple verse. Everything comes from something, Nothing comes from nothing. Just like paper comes from trees, And glass comes from sand, An answer comes from a question. All you have to do is ask. Perhaps Agatha forgets her own advice, for one night her pleasant sleep is disrupted by six cranky, cold, naked geese. They want to discuss the source of the feathers keeping her so warm in her brand new feather bed. In a delightful O. Henry-inspired ending, Agatha arrives at a...

A young Guatemalan girl searches for the family she was stolen from eight years earlier. She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibrí, Spanish for "Hummingbird". At age four she was kidnapped, torn from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City. Since then, she's traveled with "Uncle," the ex-soldier and wandering beggar who has renamed her Rosa. Uncle has always told Rosa that he searched for his parents but had no success. There's almost no chance Rosa will ever find them--but Rosa still remembers and longs for them.

A delightful tale about magic hats and bonnets, but above all about the importance about being yourself and the hidden treasures we carry within us.

Ilustraciones y rimas demuestran las emociones que sienten los niños, tales como miedo, felicidad, tristeza y celos.